Copy-book



(No Model.)

A. AGAR.

OOPY BOOK.

No. 335,103. Patented Feb. 2, 18186.

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ALEXANDER AGAR, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

COPY-BOOK..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,103, dated February 2, 1886. Application tiled October i9, 1885. Serial No. 181,334. (No model.)

.T0 a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER AGAR, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement, in Copy-Books used in Instructing Beginners in the Art of Penman ship, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to that class of copybooks which are known as tracing copybooks,7 and is so arranged that the beginner tracing the first line of the copy set atthe top ofthe page in its full extent is, by regular re ceding gradation ofthe copy, set from the first line to the last in each suc'ceedinglline, forced to depend less upon the tracing-copy and ac complish more upon effort unassisted by the tracing than in the preceding line.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which a specimen page of my tracing copybook is shown.

In my invention the lines :r :r x, Snc., are drawn in sets oftwo horizontal across the page, leaving a space between them of such width that the copyeletters a a c will exactly ll the space between them, the lowest part of the letters resting on the lower line and the high est part thereof touching the upper line. I then divide these sets of lines into regular spaces y y y by short crosslines z a z at regular intervals. The number of spaces 1/ y 3/ corresponds with the number ot' the sets of page, as aforesaid.

The copy-letters a c a are set in each space in the upper set of horizontal lines. In the second set of horizontal lines the last space at the right hand of the page is left without a copy set in it. In the third set of horizontal lines two spaces at the right-hand side of the page are left without copy, and in each succceding set of horizontal lines to the bottom of the page one more space on the right is left without copy set than in the preceding set of horizontal lines, so that when the last line is reached only the first space on the left side of the page has a tracing-copy set for the pupil.

The tracing copyletters a a c c, Snc.. are used as in illustration only. `Any letters or figures or combinations thereof may be placed in the spaces y y y, and between the set of lines x x, as aforesaid. The leaves of the book may of course be elongated and blank lines added; but a page with t-he lines arranged with tracing-copy on each in regular receding gradation is preferable.

I am aware that tracing copy-books have been made having similar spaces, some of which are lled with tracing copy letters or combinations, some partly filled and some empty, the same being placed on the page at irregular intervals, and I do not,theret'ore, claim, broadly, all combinations in a tracing copybook of spaces lled and partly filled with tracing copy-letters and empty spaces, but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In tracing copy-books, the combination on each page ofthe sets of lines x wx, divided by cross-lines z zz into regular spaces y g/g/ y,hav ing tracing copy-letters a a c c set in each space in the upper set of lines, x x, and in each succeeding set of lines one more space, y, left without tracing-copy than in the preceding set, all other spaces y y y being filled with tracing-copy, so that the tracing-copy appears in regular receding grada-tion from right to left on the page.

ALEXANDER AGAR.

Witnesses:

WALooTT C. HAMBLIN, Gno. W. WALLACE. 

